Et linux alors il se traduit comment.

Je me suis dit qu’un petit article linux serait de mise après mes photos. Je vais vous causer de traduction.I thought a linux article was in order after so many photos. I will talk about translation.

Il existe de nombreux outils de traduction sous linux. Je vous parlerais donc de ceux que j’utilise plus ou moins régulièrement.There are numerous translation tools running in linux. I will talk of the one I use more or less regularly.

Pourquoi autant et bien tout simplement parce qu’ils ont tous leurs forces et leurs faiblesses. En général j’utilise gtranslator qui est un outil récent et plutôt bien fait. Lorsque je me trouve face à des traduction qui ont de nombreuses chaines mises à jour, j’utilise lokalize qui dispose d’un outil de visualisation des mises à jour. Lokalize a aussi la possibilité d’avoir un glossaire bien que cette fonctionnalité soit sur mon système d’un fonctionnement parfois aléatoire. Poedit est à mon avis l’outil le plus simple des trois mais en cas d’erreur dans la traduction c’est aussi celui qui permet de les trouver le plus simplement, il possède un outil de traduction automatique qui peut s’avérer utile pour dégrossir une traduction. Il a l’avantage de fonctionner aussi sous windows et cela m’a été utile dans le passé.Why so many would you ask; well it’s quite simple they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Generally I use gtranslator which is a recent and quite well made tool. When I am faced with a translation containing a lot of updated strings, I use lokalize because it has a tool to visually distinguish old and new string. Lokalize also let’s you build a glossary even though that feature has been a bit flaky on my system. Poedit is in my opinion a more simple tool than the other two but in case of errors it is very easy to get to them using it, it also has an automatic translation tool that can be helpful to get a translation started. It also works in windows and this has come in handy for me in the past.

Capture d’écrans de nos différent protagonistes. The screen capture of our various tools.

All the tools above are using translation memories. They do differ in the way they can generate them.Translation memory will help you translate quicker and better; depending of your settings they will provide ready made translation and references to already translated material. Poedit has the capability to retrieve translation from the MO files present on your system on top of reference po files it will of course store your translations as well.
Gtranslator records your translation and is also capable of importing translated strings from reference files. Gtranslator also provides you with access to a number of on-line dictionaries to help you with word definition or translation with a bilingual dictionary.
Lokalize is capable of importing translation from reference PO and will record your translation work; on top of that it can import Translation memories from the trados TMX (xml) format. Lokalize has a glossary feature that will let you add words and expression commonly used. It also has a very useful tool when the PO get’s updated: It can compare the old translated string commented in the PO with the current one (it will then highlight the differences).

On notera que pour la traduction de logiciels Linux tous ces outils sont très suffisant mais que par contre pour l’aide ou la documentation il leur manque la possibilité d’effectuer une segmentation par phrase au lieu d’une segmentation par paragraphes.We can see that for the translation of linux software all these tools are very much sufficient but that in the case of help and documentation they are lacking the capacity to segment in sentences instead of paragraphs.